Category Archives: Time Management

How to Know When Your Coaching Practice is “Full”

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Does this sound familiar?  All you want is to have a “full” practice but you don’t really know exactly what that means to you…until you’ve maxed out and have taken on too many clients because you feared saying “no” to additional clients and revenue. When you are over capacity, boy do you know it and most likely on some level, your clients will know it too. This is why burnout is the leading cause for “successful” coaches leaving the industry.  … Read more…

What You can Learn From a Busy Woman

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There’s a well-known saying that goes, “If you want something done, give it to a busy woman.” So many of my successful clients are women who not only run a successful six-figure plus coaching practice, but also run their households and function as the primary parents. I help these clients get smarter about where they spend their time and energy so they can get the biggest bang for their buck. Whether you are wearing one hat or many, these strategies … Read more…

Are you caught in the “busy-ness” trap?

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Being busy is like a badge of honor in our modern Western society. We think that busy = successful, and that if we just work that much harder we will become that much more successful, but the reality is that when we leave ourselves no space, we get stuck. It’s like canning. When you’re canning, you have to leave head room in the jar or else the pressure will become too much and the jar will explode. The same applies … Read more…

How to Use Your Time Productively

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When you sit down to work on your business, how are you spending your time and energy?  Are you consistently productive or do you, as one of my clients described it, “piddle” for hours on end without much to show for it? It’s really common for coaches to go into their office each morning and stare at the computer for 8 hours because they think that is what they “should” be doing to move their business forward when in fact … Read more…

Uh-oh… it’s “Excuse Time” Again!

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It’s that time of year again: the second week in November to the first week of January is what I call “excuse time.” During this time of year, you’ll hear people say things like, “It’s the holidays, we’re so busy!” Even though the holidays themselves only take up a few days, people tend to be less responsive and tell you they don’t have time to get together. It’s also a particularly difficult time to start with new clients. You don’t … Read more…

The Ebb and Flow of Business

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Where do you fall on the Spectrum of Ambiguity? In a past life, I helped develop and teach a consulting QuickStart class at Avanade (which is a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture) where, over a 6-year period, we taught the class to more than 8,000 people. One of the core concepts we discussed in the class was about Ambiguity and the Spectrum of Ambiguity. On one end of this spectrum there are people who are just not okay with … Read more…